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Advertising can't pay musicians; only value-for-value works

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you can't drop an ad in the middle of a three minute song. There's no there's no possibility to even do an ad based music model that did go and I'm talking about in a way that directly contribute directly benefits the musician.

Episode 141: Boosting is Loving (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:34:14 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Podcast content can carry ads, but you can't drop an ad in the middle of a three-minute song. In music, ads only fund the platform, so for directly benefiting the musician value-for-value is the only model that works.

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  1. Episode 141: Boosting is Loving (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:35:06 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    The only thing that works for music is value for value.

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